sexing young oustalet's

[elchopchop]

hey everyone,
I have an incubator full of oustalet's chameleon eggs - 74 of them to be exact! - now i have done all my research on this species as primarily i'm a gecko breeder and am just branching out to chameleons. I have all the relevant enclosures set up and ready to go and am in the middle of sourcing fruit fly cultures for the hatchlings when they put in an appearence. now im going to select 3 of the babies as holdbacks for future breeding programmes but so far I have been unable to find any information on sexing newly hatched oustalet's.
could anyone out there give me any insight into this or recommend any good websites that can.
any help would be appreciated...

 

[Julirs]

Do you notice a color difference yet? Young Oustie females are green and males are brown. I have not hatched any yet so I do not know how old they are before the colors start to be noticeable.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

The three forum members that I know of who currently have (and have hatched) young of this species are:
Mike (FlChams)
Chris Anderson
Jim (Chameleon Company)
You may want to pm one or all of them with any questions you have.
I wouldn't think fruit flies would be of much use with these.

-Brad

 

[elchopchop]

no colour difference yet as they are still in incubator!!!

 

[elchopchop]

thanks dude will get on to it now...

 

[Chris Anderson]

In general the most reliable way to sex them is based on the hemipenal bulge. As they age, you should be able to pull out animals that have larger tail bases then others and can use that as a means to sex them. Once they get large enough, coloration can be used as well but I would go by the tail base.

Chris